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Vocabulary: Unit 1
Honors English ll - Unit 1 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aquisitive | Adj - able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property. |
| Arrogate | verb - to claim or take without right |
| Benal | adj - hackneyed, commonplace, trite |
| Belabor | verb - to work on excessively; to thrash soundly |
| Carping | adj - tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way noun - petty, nagging, critisism |
| Coherent | adj - holding or sticking together; making logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful |
| Congeal | verb - to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or ridgid |
| Emulate | verb - to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model |
| Encomium | noun - a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute |
| Eschew | verb - to avoid, shun, keep away from |
| Germane | adj - relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting |
| Insatiable | adj - so great or demanding as not to be satisfied |
| Intransigent | adj - refusing to compromise; irreconcilable |
| Invidious | adj - Offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment |
| Largesse | noun - generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions |
| Reconnaissance | noun - a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination |
| Substantiate | verb - to establish any evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to |
| Taciturn | adj - habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little |
| Temporize | verb - to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise |
| Tenable | adj - capable of being held or defended |